Dialogic Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art

by Miriam Jordan-Haladyn

Overview

Dialogic Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art argues for the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of dialogism as a means of examining the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary moving image art forms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433124457
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	05/22/2014
Series:	American University Studies: Series 5: Philosophy , #215
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Miriam Jordan-Haladyn is a First Nations writer and artist. She received her PhD in art and visual culture from The University of Western Ontario and is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and Visual Studies Department at Cornell University. Her writings on art, film and culture have appeared in numerous publications, including the collections Visual Representations of Native Americans: Transnational Contexts and Perspectives (2012), Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity (2011) and Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy (2007). With Julian Haladyn she co-authored The Films and Videos of Jamelie Hassan, a publication that accompanied their curated project that brings together for the first time the moving image works of Hassan, a prominent Canadian artist of Arabic background.

Table of Contents

Contents: Bakhtin and Moving Image Art – Dialogism and Its Material Context – Dialogic Materialism: Artist - Artwork - Observer – Given and Created: Stan Douglas Subject To A Different Response – Chronotopic Bodies and the We of Aesthetic Discourse: Jamelie Hassan’s Films and Videos – Polyphonic Screens: Chris Marker and Embodied Memory – Dialogic Materialism: Aesthetic Language and Its Multi-medial Forms.